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NASA discovery 'reveals' the exact date Jesus died with link to lunar eclipse
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Published 17:01 19 Apr 2025 GMT+1

NASA discovery 'reveals' the exact date Jesus died with link to lunar eclipse

NASA compared the Jewish calendar, moon cycles and biblical references to come up with the date and year

Britt Jones

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NASA’s latest find could prove the date on which Jesus died.

Whether you believe that he was a real person or not, there is something to be said about some accurate world events from the Bible and then in the real world.

There was the cloth that was allegedly used to wrap him in after his burial, which was found, dated and tested.

There is some evidence to suggest that Noah’s arc and flood could have occurred, and more.

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But when it comes to the lore of Jesus, it can be harder to find out if he existed or not.

Regardless, we can finally pinpoint the exact day he died on the crucifix, thanks to NASA.

While we generally consider April and Easter to be around the time he died and rose from the dead, there’s a lot to be said about keeping an accurate portrayal alive across the 2,000 years that Abrahamic religions came to fruition.

It’s hard to keep details like that the same for such a long length of time.

So, before NASA came out with their own evidence, it has been universally believed that Jesus died on Good Friday, therefore he died on 3 April AD 33 at around 3pm.

NASA has revealed the exact date Jesus died (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / Stringer / Getty)
NASA has revealed the exact date Jesus died (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / Stringer / Getty)

Just a few hours before the beginning of Passover day and the Sabbath.

But what does the space agency's astronomical models say to this?

Well, they have the exact same date on their end.

In a shocking turn of events, NASA’s data has pinpointed an exact day and approximate time that Jesus died based on scripture entries of his death.

The Bible verse in question reads:

“From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land,” one translation of Matthew 27:45 states, which describes the skies as Jesus lay on the cross.

And just as it happens, a lunar eclipse took place on Friday, 3 April, 33 AD.

NASA discovered this in the 1990s, where the agency shared that the ‘Christian texts mention that the Moon turned to blood after Jesus's crucifixion—potentially referring to a lunar eclipse, during which the Moon takes on a reddish hue'.

Biblical experts Colin Humphreys and W Graeme Waddington of the University of Oxford also went on to say that Joel’s prophecy in the Old Testament says that the moon would turn to blood and the day of the Lord would come, which matched closely what happened when Jesus died.

Using lunar cycle history, bible references and the Jewish calendar, the date was revealed (GraphicaArtis / Contributor / Getty)
Using lunar cycle history, bible references and the Jewish calendar, the date was revealed (GraphicaArtis / Contributor / Getty)

Their report shared that the date of the Crucifixion has been debated for years, but no agreement on the year or the day has happened.

However, thanks to the astronomical calculations used to reconstruct the ‘Jewish calendar in the first century AD and to date a lunar eclipse that biblical and other references suggest followed the Crucifixion’.

Then, in a page on NASA’s website explaining how far back in history solar eclipses have been recorded stated: “Christian texts mention that the Moon turned to blood after Jesus’s crucifixion – potentially referring to a lunar eclipse, during which the Moon takes on a reddish hue. Using this textual source, scholars narrowed down a possible date of crucifixion to Friday, April 3, 33 C.E. because a lunar eclipse occurred that day.”

So, now we know.

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